CHEM Trust – Chemical Pollution From FrackingJuly 2015
There is a clear potential for fracking to cause serious incidents in the UK and Europe especially as fracking is likely to be positioned closer to people as population densities are higher than in the US.Philip J Lightowlers for CHEM Trust

MEDACT Shale Gas Production in England – updated public health assessment
July 07, 2016
This new report reaches broadly the same conclusions as the 2015 report Health and Fracking, however it is now supported by a much larger body of evidence published in the year since the first report was produced. In the last year over 350 academic papers of various sorts have been published, examining the impacts of high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) for shale gas on air and water quality, health, climate change, social wellbeing, economics, noise and light pollution, and seismic events. This new report updates the findings of a review of the latest evidence.

MEDACT Letter to Lancashire County Council CouncillorsDecember 2014
A review of the potential health impacts of exposures to chemical and radioactive pollutants from shale gas extraction produced by Public Health England is inadequate and incomplete; and arrived at an erroneous, unsubstantiated and misleading conclusion.

Shale gas: an updated assessment of environmental and climate change impactsNovember 2011
This report explores the environmental risks and climate change implications arising from shale gas extraction. It also outlines potential UK and global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the exploitation of shale reserves.A report by researchers at the Tyndall Centre University of Manchester

Environmental Impact

Methane contamination of water, April 2011 – Shows very large increase of Methane up to 1km from active wells with concentrations high enough to be an explosive hazard. Heightened methane levels also found up to 4.5km from inactive wells.

Climate Change

Greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas– Shows that shale gas has from 20% to 100% greater contribution to GHG than coal over a 20 year period, and similar effectover 100 year period. Methane leakage during production is 30% to 100% more than conventional gas.

Health and Community

Concerned Health Professionals of NY– A ‘BRILLIANT’ resource of scientific reports/studies about the dangers of the Unconventional Gas Industry; this website/organisation has been se up and is run by Health Professionals in New York State.

Out Of Control – Nova Scotia’s Experience with Fracking for Shale GasMarch 2013
The risks were not as evident in 2007, when Triangle began work, as they are today. In 2013, no government can move ahead with shale gas development and later say, “we didn’t know there would be problems.”Barb Harris, John Cascadden, Angela Giles, Kris MacLellan, Ken Summers, Jennifer West, Michael Whale, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition

A reality check on the shale revolutionFebruary 2013
UK Government figures for unconventional gas production are two or three times higher than the latest US figures. 70% of US shale gas comes from fields where production is either flat or in decline.J. David Hughes – Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, California 95404, USA.

Memorandum submitted to Energy and Climate Change Select Comittee (SG 08)February 2011
“We do not consider there to be a risk that hydrocarbons or fracing fluid leak into shallow water aquifers as a result of the fracing process. We note there is no officially documented case of fracing causing leakage of hydrocarbons or fracing fluid…”Cuadrilla Resources Holdings Ltd.